William S. Burroughs, a central figure of the Beat movement of the 1940s and ’50s, certainly turned into one of the most unlikely of pop-culture and literary heroes. And when he died in 1997 in Lawrence, where he’d lived the last 16 or so of his 83 years, Burroughs left a legacy not only of disturbing, mind-bending books but of creative influence that touched a wide range of artists, musicians, writers and filmmakers, especially those with countercultural tendencies.
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